Set clipping region is wrongly shifting to the right when looping

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Scenario: Reading Scanned Documents, Images, etc.

Steps to reproduce: Find OCR text, set clipping region 95 pixels to the right, read new region, repeat with new target text.

Current Behavior: Everytime it repeats, it wrongly shifts the clipping region more and more to the right.

Expected Behavior: It should always look for a region exactly 95 pixels to the right.

Studio/Robot/Orchestrator Version: 2019.5.0

Last stable behavior: Unknown
Last stable version: Unknown
OS Version: Microsoft Windows 10 Home 10.0.17134 Build 17134
Others if Relevant: (workflow, logs, .net version, service pack, etc): ClippingRegion_Test.xaml (12.1 KB)

The attached file is just and example. Ideally I would use this to read multiple fields in a scanned document.

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This is how it should work. You are telling the robot to Translate the clipping region by the specified amount each iteration, so it does.
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If you want it to not shift more and more every time you need to reset the clipping region in between uses by using Direction: RECTANGLE and Size: (0,0,0,0).
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If you use the recorder you’ll see that it automatically generates these Reset Clipping Region activities.

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Oops. I was so close to doing that too. Only that instead of Rectangle, I used Translate: (0,0,0,0).
Thanks, though! You solved my problem. Will change the tags since it isn’t a bug.

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@DanielMitchell Sorry, to bother again; but I tried it and it didn’t work.
I even tried using the recorder activities but if you run it on debug with element highlighting, it still shifts.
Please tell me what I’m doing wrong.
ClippingRegion_Test - 2.xaml (12.1 KB)
ClippingRegion_Test - Recorder.xaml (12.3 KB)

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The only thing I can think of would be maybe try it without passing “myElement” in as the Element - just leave it blank. But if it’s still shifting repeatedly using the recorder activities then that would seem to be a legitimate bug as you’d first described.

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It would seem that way.

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@Samuel2001 Hello! I’m new to using UIPath but I am experiencing exactly the issue you described in this thread (the clipping region shifting to the right - Despite having a reset clipping region using a Rectangle (0,0,0,0)). Did you ever get a solution to the issue?

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No sorry, I moved on from that as it appeared to be a bug.

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to me it happens when the monitor has more than 100% resolution. Tested on 125% and there was shifting, on 100% wasn’t. I didn’t test resolution less then 100%

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@Samuel2001
so…when u say moved on…
was there a way that helped u to handle this

i am facing the same issue. please suggest if something worked out for you